To answer the above question, we observe clustering behaviors of
geographic regions on important metrics, such as GDP, Internet, Birth,
Literacy, Electricity, and Political Stability rate. Since GDP is a
multiplier on population, we normalize it into a new transformed
variable, GDP per capita.
The above 2d MDS plot suggests some clustering of Sub Saharan
Africa, Europe & Central Asia, and Latin America & Caribbean, as
well as some overlap in clusters of other regions, but clustering of all
6 regions is difficult to observe. We could create side-by-side plots
for each cluster, but doing so makes gauging the distance between
clusters difficult. Instead, we use plotly to create an interactive 3d
MDS plot to further differentiate the clusters.